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5 Hidden Life Lessons in the Bhagavad Gita for Today’s Teenagers

The Bhagavad Gita is 700 verses of dialogue between a warrior and his divine charioteer, delivered on a battlefield in the minutes before a catastrophic war. It was composed approximately…

Child Psychology

Building Emotional Intelligence (EQ) in a World of Emojis

In 1995, psychologist Daniel Goleman published a book called Emotional Intelligence that made a radical claim: that the qualities measured by IQ tests — logical reasoning, mathematical ability, linguistic aptitude…

Child Psychology

The Decline of Handwriting: Does Cursive Still Matter in a Digital World?

In 2010, the United States' Common Core curriculum — one of the most influential educational standards frameworks in the world — quietly removed cursive handwriting as a mandatory subject. Within…

Child Psychology

Teaching Financial Literacy: How to Explain Investing to a 7-Year-Old

The country with the world's highest rate of personal savings and lowest consumer debt is not, as you might expect, a country with unusually high incomes. It is a country…

Child Psychology

AI in the Classroom: Will ChatGPT Help or Hinder Your Child’s Learning?

It is the question every educator and every thoughtful parent is grappling with right now, and the honest answer is: it depends entirely on how it is used. Artificial intelligence…

Telugu Short Stories

Tenali Rama and the Invisible Ink

The trouble began, as trouble in King Krishnadevaraya's court so often did, with a challenge from a stranger. He arrived during the court's open audience — a lean man in…

Telugu Language

How to Seamlessly Introduce Telugu to English-Speaking Toddlers

There is a window in early childhood — roughly from birth to age seven — during which language acquisition occurs with an ease and naturalness that will never return. During…

Food Culture and Heritage

Why Teaching Your Child Their Mother Tongue Boosts Their Overall IQ

In the 1960s, conventional educational wisdom held that bilingualism was a cognitive burden. Children who grew up speaking two languages were thought to be cognitively 'confused' — their languages interfering…

English Short Stories

The Architect of Amaravati (Historical Fiction for Children)

The year was 200 BCE, and the city of Amaravati was being born stone by stone on the southern bank of the Krishna River. Twelve-year-old Priya had never been allowed…

Telugu Short Stories

The Psychology of Positive Reinforcement: Moving Beyond ‘Good Job’

"Good job!" You have said it hundreds of times. It slips out automatically when your child draws a picture, ties their shoes, or brings home a test paper. It feels…